overspecify

There is no intention in this brief report to debate the whole issue of military specifications and the temptation to overspecify.

You might for example overspecify the wire, which leads to larger forks, which allows more material, but this approach is intellectually squalid and needlessly expensive.

However, as with any grammatical category, a translator working from a language with a category of number into one without such a category must be careful not to overspecify this type of information in the target text.